Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 18:51:45 -0400
From: Tim Ney <ten@gnu.org>
To: info-gnu@gnu.org
Subject: Nominees for the Free Software Award

The eligible nominees for the First Annual Free Software Foundation
for the Advancement of Free Software are:

Rick Adams
Eric Allman
Marc Andreesson 
Apache group
The creator and free distributor of arachnophillia web authoring
Steve Baur
Donald J. Becker
Tim Berners-Lee
Craig Burley
Tom Christiansen
James Clark
Dominique Colnet
Alan Cox
Debian GNU/Linux project
DJ Delorie
L. Peter Deutsch
Jack Dongarra
Clayton Donley
Ulrich Drepper
Bryan Dye
John W. Eaton
Paul Eggert
Ralf S. Engelschall
Katharine English
ETL, Japan: Ken'ichi Handa et al.
Matthias Ettrich
Fred Fish
Brian Fox
FreeBSD core team
Danny Gasparovski
gcc version 2.7.x.x team
John Gilmore
Anybody associated with GIMP project.
Tristan Gingold
Donald Gudehus
Carsten Haitzler and Geoff Harrison
Jon "maddog" Hall
David Harris
Philip Hazel
Mark Hessling
Jordan K. Hubbard
Jan Hubicka
Miguel de Icaza
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
The guy who wrote Kaffe
KDE-Team
Spencer Kimball
Donald Knuth
Karin Kylander and Olof S. Kylander
Chrisopher Langton
Ted Lemon and the Internet Software Consortium
Patrick Lenz
Richard Leyton
James Love and Ralph Nader
H.J. Lu
Doug MacEachern
Rob Malda
Eberhard Mattes
Peter Mattis
Brian McCauley
Roland McGrath
Dave Miller
Rob Mlada
Bram Moolenaar
Erik Naggum
NEdit team
Jamie Zawinski and Jim Barksdale
Joachim Neubueser and Martin Schoenert
NPR
Vern Parson
Brian Paul
Bruce Perens
Nick Petreley
PHP development team
Sebastian Rahtz
Eric S. Raymond
Arnold Robbins
Kai-Uwe Rommel
Guido van Rossum
Timo Salmi
The Samba Team
Bob Scheifler
Douglas C. Schmidt
Randal Schwartz
Joel Sherrill
Henry Spencer
Alex Stepanov
David Stes
Ian Taylor
Michael Tiemann
Andrew Tridgell
SAMBA
Paul Vixie
Patrick Volkerding
Larry Wall
Matt Welsh
Jim Warren
webmaster of http://www.linux.org
Duane Wessels
Bob Young
Eli Zaretskii
Andreas Zeller
Phil Zimmerman

Congratulations to all of the nominees. The winner of the award will 
be announced on October 9th.

The original announcement calling for nominations can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/award.html.